Literature Review

1. What are the most rigourous sources for a literature review?
a. The most rigorous source for a literature review are, scientific journals because they are the best place to find primary source articles about experiments, including medical studies. Every rigorous scientific journal is peer reviewed.
b. A rigorous literature review, is often related to a systematic, standard literature review – also known as a systematic literature review.
c. In Qualitative Research
i. Scientific rigor is valued because it is associated with a great woth of research outcomes and studies are critiqued as a means of judging rigor. ii. Rigor, is defined differently in Qualitative, as it is in Quantitative. iii. Evaluating rigor in a Qualitative study, is based in part on the logic of the emerging theory and clarity with which it sheds light on the studied topic.
d. In Quantitative Research
i. Rigor, in Quantitative studies is the act of striving for excellence in research, and it requires discipline, adherence to detail , and strict accuracy. It has measuring tools, a representative sample and a tight controlled study design. ii. To critique the rigor of a Quantitative study, the reasoning and the precision used in conducting the study must be examined, all of which includes logical reasoning related to deducting and inductive reasoning. iii. In Quantitative, rigor is associated with openness, scrupulous adherence to a philosophical perspective, thoroughness in collecting data, and consideration of all of the data in the subjective theory development phase. iv. Another aspect of Rigor, is precision – which includes accuracy, detail, and order. Precision is evident in the concise statement of the research purpose and detailed development of the study design. The most rigor and explicit example of precision is the measurement of quantification of the study variables.

2. What kind of sources are included in a literature review?
a. 2 main types of sources in the review of literature, theoretical and empirical.
b. Empirical, refers to knowledge derived from research.
c. Theoretical, is knowledge based on data from research (data based).
d. The other types of data are examined by the researcher in the process of reviewing the literature but are rarely cited in a research publication because of their subjectivity.

3. What is the least rigorous?
a. The least rigorous type of source to be included in a literature review, is material published that lacks peer review or reports material from a different, irrelevant field.
b. Often related to a Conventional Literature Review, that may have sources regurgitate the subject matter without contributing to the work in an already researched approach related to the available information or lacking a scholarly critique of theory.